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121 Reflecting type in water

Hey gang! This is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week we're going to finish up our Photoshop type effect. Specifically, I am…going to show you how to take this type right here and we're going to reflect…the letters into the water in order to produce this effect.…Now, notice that everything aligns beautifully.…We have these letters resting directly on top of the water and they align well…with the reflection.…And the reflection matches the natural pattern of the water itself.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works. All right!…So here's the final effect that we're going for, here is the reflection that I…will show you how to create inside of this movie, and here is our base file,…which contains an image in the background and then some editable text, which is…set in Nueva Standard, which is a font that ships along with the Creative Suite.…

But if you don't have it and you get a font warning, don't worry about it,…everything will work out as advertised.…First thing we want to do, as is so often the case, is we want to take this text…

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9/26/2017

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1/13/2011

This course is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.

Skill Level Intermediate

109h 23m

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